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Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket vs Plus-Minus Sign

Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket
2996
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Plus-Minus Sign
00B1
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VS

Property Comparison

Property ⦖ 2996 ± 00B1
Name Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket Plus-Minus Sign
Category Math Symbols Math Symbols
Block Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-B Latin-1 Supplement
Script Zyyy Zyyy
General Category Close Punctuation (Pe) Math Symbol (Sm)
Bidirectional ON ET

Encoding Comparison

Format 2996 00B1
Unicode U+2996 U+00B1
HTML Decimal ⦖ ±
HTML Hex ⦖ ±
CSS \2996 \00B1
JavaScript \u{2996} \u{B1}
Python \u2996 \u00b1
UTF-8 e2 a6 96 c2 b1

How to Distinguish

Both Double Right Arc Less-Than Bracket and Plus-Minus Sign are in the Math Symbols category but reside in different Unicode blocks. Check the codepoint to tell them apart.

Tip: Paste the character into a hex editor or use charCodeAt() in JavaScript to check the actual codepoint.

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